Roughly 73 square miles of ancestral homelands once belonging to California’s Yurok Tribe have been returned to them.

This historic transfer, completed in partnership with the Western Rivers Conservancy, includes vital salmon habitats, ...

“These places are Cherokee ancestral lands; they’re here because of thousands of years of Indigenous stewardship,” says Dunlavey, referring to the biologically rich areas that she studies ...

Home to displaced Native Americans who’d been kicked off their ancestral lands and white ... the sovereignty of Native lands—such as the Cherokee territory pictured here in northeastern ...

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Native American Tribe Is on a Preservation Mission as It Celebrates Trust Status for Ancestral Lands SANTA ANA PUEBLO, N.M. (AP) — When the sprawling Alamo Ranch first went up for sale nearly a ...

SANTA ANA PUEBLO, N.M. (AP) — A Native American community in the heart of New Mexico has officially doubled in size as more than 93 square miles of ancestral land was taken into trust by the U.S ...